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Fundamentals of Programming
In November of last year I turned into a new sort of creature: a middle school teacher. It was inevitable, with my healthy store of dad jokes and juvenile disposition, that I would find work with...
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Review: The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 4 of 5 stars I listened to the audio version of this book and holy cow, did Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, and India Fisher do a fantastic job...
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Review: Version Control
Version Control by Dexter Palmer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Easily one of my favorite books of the year so far, even though it turned out far, far different than I’d expected. The book was just so much...
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Review: The Circle
The Circle by Dave Eggers My rating: 1 of 5 stars I couldn’t finish this. I made it through part four of eleven of the audiobook and had to check the review on GoodReads and LibraryThing to see if...
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Review: A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to...
A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved it, loved every single mystical second of it. I had to stop folding...
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Review: The Last Days of Magic
The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins My rating: 2 of 5 stars I received a copy of this book through Penguin’s First to Read program. The premise sounded great — a synthesis of myth, legend, fairy...
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Review: Personal
Personal by Lee Child My rating: 0 of 5 stars I listened to the audiobook version of this book. Loved the reading, thought it captured Jack Reacher’s calm, calculating demeanor pretty naturally. Casey...
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Review: Mr. Splitfoot
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was wandering the shelves at Barnes & Noble and found this book, face out on the shelf, and thank Pete it was.I loved this crooked tale of...
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Review: This Was Not the Plan: A Novel
This Was Not the Plan: A Novel by Cristina Alger My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a good, quick read. I thought the book was peopled with mostly believable characters, and thank god for high-paying...
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Review: Modern Romance
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari My rating: 1 of 5 stars I don’t think I’m the target audience for this book. I really enjoy Aziz Ansari’s stand-up, and I knew, going in to the audiobook, that this...
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Review: The Hard Way
The Hard Way by Lee Child My rating: 3 of 5 stars Listened to the audiobook version of this one again (can you tell I’ve just discovered Overdrive and its connection to our local library?). Same...
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Review: Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I listened to the audiobook through OneDigital, an iPhone app with a partnership with the library. The app itself was a little buggy — it...
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Review: Undermajordomo Minor
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was a ton of fun. You have a protagonist who surely shares DNA with Candide in Lucy Minor, who strikes out, oblivious to his...
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Review: Watership Down
Watership Down by Richard Adams My rating: 5 of 5 stars We just listened to this one in the car, myself and the kids, through Overdrive and our local library. We had to renew it a couple times to get...
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Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was another audiobook from the library through Overdrive, and it’s a short and sweet romp through the transformations in...
View ArticlePlease Go Vote for Indu, a Healthcare Startup in Ireland
So this was meant to be a little post about voting for my sister-in-law’s start-up in Richard Branson’s #VOOM2016 competition, but then Carol messaged the extended family on Facebook that she was...
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Review: 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks My rating: 1 of 5 stars I don’t know why I finished this. Perhaps it was the 1.5x speed setting on the audiobook that helped. Barely....
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Review: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved this book. Listened to the audiobook, which was narrated so well by Steven...
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Review: The Man from Primrose Lane
The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fun read. It’s not quite as polished as his next novel, The Great Forgetting, but it’s a fun, twisty read.You can tell the...
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Review: This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It by David Wong My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a fun enough listen and it grew on me the longer I listened. Or perhaps it got over its...
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